Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.